Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

Compared to developing economies, European transition economies had high levels of human capital when their transitions began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena...

Resources, competition and the layers of the state -- Lucrative products and the pursuit of profit -- Grain, agricultural reclamation and a new perspective on production -- Gold, oil, and the allure of foreign capital -- Furs, pelts, wool and the power of global markets -- Industrial minerals...

Introduction: Foreign aid and development politics in India -- Part I. Learning development, 1947-1955: Debating development and discovering India -- Inventing development aid -- Part II. The heyday of the economic cold war, 1955-1966: The geopolitics of economic expertise -- The aid project and...

This paper studies the effect of forced labor relocation in GULAG, and the losses during the WWII on the long-term dynamics of city growth in the USSR. The main goal is to test whether the impact of Stalinist policies and the WWII on economic geography of the USSR persists in long run, and...